American Sentences 2012
1.04.12 – Northwest Church memorial service: gluten free communion wafers.
1.06.12 – He has closed his car trunk at least 13 times since he washed it.
1.09.12 – Xi Chuan says International District dragons look more like mountain lizards.
1.11.12 – Touring Seattle Xi Chuan wonders who’d live next to a cemetery.
1.13.12 – Useless! Useless! – flossing in the mid-day, eating popcorn at night.
1.15.12 – “I’m open-minded but I get nervous when Christians get out guitars.”
1.16.12 – Fat-ass snowman @ 31st & McClellan just waiting for rain.
1.20.12 – How different the seagull looks flying above Friday snow.
1.25.12 – May not be much of a January sun but it’s aimed right at me.
1.28.12 – In the dream dancing to Eton Rifles, then vacuuming sawdust.
1.29.12 – It only takes one fucker smoking to forever scar a blanket.
2.03.12 – Bumper sticker, W. Irving – Chicago: “Beer & Meat & Rock n Roll.”
2.08.12 – Sarcacoca, daffodils & birdsongs ain’t waiting for the woodfrogs.
2.11.12 – Phrase I was not expecting to hear this morning: “Veins of the rectum.”
2.13.12 – I tell her to “put the schnoodle in the kayak and backpack to Jack’s shack.”
2.15.12 – In the dream he’s making my family tree out of skeletons.
2.19.12 – Keeps dropping her she keeps popping into his arms (no veal slippers). (After Pina)
2.20.12 – Only ornament on the bare branches of February trees – crows.
2.25.12 – Hey Pocky Way, either: “You can’t believe that”or “Kill the guy over there.”
2.26.12 – For a week now our car music non-stop: All Ella, all the time.
2.29.12 – When the rain starts changing to snow the hummingbird vacates the treetop.
3.1.12 – Men remove a dream piano from my roof w/ ropes and pulleys.
3.2.12 – In the dream I’m going down on her but wake up licking my bite guard.
3.3.12 – Truck driver in crash works for Community Services for the Blind.
3.4.12 – PCC car lot: can’t swing a smudge stick w/o hitting a prius.
3.6.12 – Hackers from Anonymous arrested – will they get to check email?
3.14.12 – Balsamic viniagrette, bouncy car rides, jalapeño cheese dip, needles…
3.15.12 – Will promoting literary arts: “I’ll spam the fuck out of you.”
3.16.12 – She’s had more hands in her vagina than @ any other time since high school.
3.16.12 – Nurse Anita predicts: “A miracle of cervical ripening.”
3.17.12 – Under the c-section table her urine, he says: “Looks like pilsner.”
3.23.12 – Rags once used for mopping up semen now perfect for baby urp.
3.26.12 – Sam Hamill tells Mark: “You want to talk poetry, you better have a putter.”
3.26.12 – Alice Derry: Surrendering salami to the yellow jackets.
3.31.12 – Saturday night rain on Lake Xacho – what Monet wd have done w/ this.
4.2.12 – Sitting outside on 15th – every woman is beautiful in Spring.
4.5.12 – Shift change: rock the baby, whistle lullaby, see my face in her eyes.
4.8.12 – “Genuflecting to my ice tea feels particularly spiritual now.” (Eileen Myles on Easter Sunday)
4.9.12 – In the dream my licorice does not break down, nor does it have taste.
4.11.12 – Reward @ the end of the alley is jasmine & downhill.
4.16.12 – Not likely to use the horn after latihan, but I still speed home.
4.17.12 – Why pick up after your dog if you just throw the shit bag on the lawn?
4.18.12 – “Employees must carve Slayer into forearms before returning to work.” (At Vermillion.)
4.20.12 – Keith Jarrett’s rapturous vocalizations or backseat baby Ella?
4.21.12 – Fuck you too slow driver – I’m going to do my spiritual practice!
4.21.12 – 27 M’s up, 27 down – Humber’s Safeco Perfecto.
4.23.12 – Rancid Egg opening up for Spastic Eyebrow at the Fukodome.
4.27.12 – Only Seattle: “Daily cyber deal – milk steaming latté art class.
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